Is there a FOSS selfhosteable alternative to iLovePDF?
For those who don't know what iLovePDF is, it basically allows you to convert a literal equal copy of PDF into docx or a format more suited towards editing on LibreOffice/OpenOffice and some other things related to PDF, rarely losing some visual formatting when it does its usually related to the font but its not so often
theres PDFDing but its not as actively maintained as StirlingPDF
LibeOffice Writer opens pdf's just fine. Just save it as odt afterwards. Probably can't do complex pdf's this way, but in that case you shouldn't really convert the pdf anyway as it will almost always loose some of the formatting or layout in the process.
its not as effective as StirlingPDF, people using iLovePDF usually need it because they have to edit a PDF with customized footer/upper part of the page and just opening with LibreOffice Writer definitely will not maintain that. keeping the content and format are two different things, so if you are just opening a simple PDF without much formatting then yes maybe you dont need something like StirlingPDF and just directly opening with LibreOffice Writer will suffice
StirlingPDF converts from PDF to many thing including RTF, Word, and XML.
That's what I use.
big up Stirling. it's super easy to host and packed with features. one of my favourite apps
Might not be exactly what you’re looking for but I find Gotenberg quite handy for related activities.
This is really neat!